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David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life
April 18, 2018, 12:35 pm
Declaring independence, and so much more
The values of a nation committed to freedom, equality, and justice, regardless of one's politics or religion
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt
Polish residents of Plonsk, along with numerous dignitaries, gather in honor of Israel's 70th anniversary of independence, April 15, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Limmud FSU)
April 16, 2018, 3:29 pm
In Ben-Gurion’s Polish hometown, residents dance the hora ahead of Israel’s 70th
Hundreds of citizens of Plonsk, the birthplace of the first Israeli prime minister, gather with Jewish leaders in a show of solidarity and support for the Jewish state
By Yaakov Schwartz
Undated image of late Israeli David Ben-Gurion at his home in Jerusalem. (GPO)
March 10, 2018, 9:19 am
Ben-Gurion sought more women in government, archived letter shows
First PM said appointing females to leadership positions was a 'duty' and 'a privilege,' hoped Israel would serve as an example of gender equality
By TOI staff
Udo Landbauer in 2015. (CC-BY-SA 4.0 MarleneK/Wikipedia)
February 2, 2018, 11:50 pm
Austrian far-right minister quits over fraternity’s anti-Semitic texts
Udo Landbauer, who was 11 when offensive poems about Jews were included in a songbook of the Germania zu Wiener Neustadt fraternity, said he would leave politics
By JTA
President Reuven Rivlin delivers a speech at the President's residence in Jerusalem on November 22, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 23, 2017, 2:26 pm
As crisis with US Jews sharpens, Rivlin calls for resetting ties
President says relationship should no longer be based on 'philanthropy on the one hand and blind admiration on the other'
By Raphael Ahren
Then-prime minister Golda Meir visiting a wounded soldier in hospital during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Herman Chanania/GPO)
November 17, 2017, 3:22 pm
Who (or what) was Golda Meir’s one true love? A new biography has answers
A strong female figure who helped found the state, Israel's matriarch was widely beloved. Writer Francine Klagsbrun offers new insight into the former prime minister's life
By JP O’ Malley
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)
August 27, 2017, 4:31 pm
Yitzhak Pundak, made a general at 100, dies at 104
The deceased officer requested burial at Kibbutz Nitzanim, whose sullied name he sought to redeem
By Judah Ari Gross
Part of the draw for scholars attending the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on August 6-10, 2017, is the chance to catch up with old friends. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
August 10, 2017, 4:46 pm
At 70, Jerusalem’s Jewish Studies ‘Olympics’ still a good brain workout
Held every four years, the World Congress of Jewish Studies brings together the field's finest with those who want to walk in their footsteps
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua at a writers conference in Jerusalem, February 7, 2013. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
August 1, 2017, 10:18 am
A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Leave the Temple Mount to the Muslims’
Tisha B'Av not about mourning destruction of buildings but about failure of Jewish Diaspora to return to Israel, says famed author
By Sue Surkes
A standard IDF tear gas hand grenade (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Daboos Hassan/Wikipedia)
June 27, 2017, 9:01 pm
The peace process hasn’t brought peace. The case for moving on
In a new book, philosopher Micah Goodman seeks to upend the debate about the West Bank, by urging Israelis -- left and right -- to set aside their dreams
By Haviv Rettig Gur
May 23, 2017, 3:58 pm
June 4, 1967
What happens when you heed Ben-Gurion’s call to fight for Israel -- and why winning takes longer than six days
By Peter Geffen
Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)
April 13, 2017, 4:08 am
Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?
Eclectic essays explore Ben-Gurion's experimentation with demographic eugenics, and the Jewish ardor -- and abhorrence -- for taking stock
By Matt Lebovic
Sarah Nachshon in a scene from the documentary 'The Settlers,' directed by Shimon Dotan. (Image courtesy of Philippe Bellaiche)
March 3, 2017, 6:01 pm
‘The Settlers’: An effective work of left-wing propaganda
Shimon Dotan's disturbing documentary on Jews settling the West Bank raises lingering questions. The film playing opposite it in New York, 'Ben Gurion, Epilogue,' offers some answers
By Jordan Hoffman
Sara Aaronsohn, one of the founders of the pre-British Mandate Palestine espionage ring Nili. (public domain)
December 14, 2016, 10:29 am
With spy Sarah Aaronsohn’s suicide, Israeli history was rewritten, claims author
In 1915, the Aaronsohn siblings founded an espionage group in their village of Zichron Yaakov to help the Brits defeat the Turks. Outside of Israel, why was their tale whitewashed from history?
By JP O’ Malley
Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich attends a committee meeting regarding the so-called Regulation Bill, which is designed to avert the court-ordered demolition of the West Bank outpost of Amona by December 25, on November 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 4, 2016, 9:35 am
Firebrand MK says sorry for doubting PM’s leadership
Jewish Home lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich apologizes after Netanyahu refused to let him into his office
By Alexander Fulbright
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